Punctuation Postcard

 Punctuation Work in Class, Homework and Test

Work in Class.
1. Imagine that during the February holidays, you have the opportunity to spend £2000 on a ten-day trip to the UK.
Plan your trip in detail (in pairs, create a table of costs and places to visit in Google Docs and share with me).

2. Complete the Punctuation Quiz. (Note, you will later be tested on your knowledge of this document).

3. Homework for next Monday.
Take half an hour and watch this video on punctuation:  

When you start the video, the guy's approach might seem pretty awful but, trust me, he's good at what he does! Do the exercises with him.

Here is the timing of the different sections of the video:

5:32 Comma use
11:33 Quiz
12:35 Comma splice (this is how many of you misuse the comma)
16:30 Quiz
16:49 Semi-colon
19:13 Colon use
21:25 Exercise
22:13 Apostrophe use 
26:30 Its versus It’s
27:09 Last quiz (can everyone do this exercise?)

You will be tested in class on the exercises covered in the video (and on the practice sheet).

We will then review use of Present Perfect vs Past Simple.



Punctuation Postcard. - don't start until you receive information in class.

Task: imagine you are in the closing days of your fabulous holiday to the UK which has taken you to at least 2 different destinations (regions/cities/countries).

Write a postcard (Introduction, paragraph 1, paragraph 2, conclusion) to me BEFORE you travel home.

Eg:

Dear Mrs C,

I am writing to you from Edinburgh, in the closing days of a fabulous holiday which has also taken me to Liverpool and London . Let me tell you all about my adventures!

Paragraph One (past simple): LONDON
Paragraph Two (past simple but also present perfect): Edinburgh

Conclusion (present simple plus other tenses)

Key points:
  • Use a range of punctuation marks, and be careful with use of tenses, especially past simple and present perfect.
  • In your postcard, describe the places you’ve been and the sights that you’ve seen.
  • Use rhetorical questions (you know what they are, right?)
  • Use a range of punctuation (fullstops, commas, semi-colons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks). 
  • Apply what you have learned from the video...

Assessment Grill ((20 points)

Content : 6 points
Grammar : 8 points
Punctuation : 6 points

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